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title: "Gray Buckeye"
description: "Junonia grisea — Insectes et araignées. Junonia grisea, also known as the gray buckeye, grey buckeye, or Western buckeye, is a species in the butterfly family Nymphalidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/gray-buckeye
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Gray Buckeye

> Junonia grisea — Insectes et araignées. Junonia grisea, also known as the gray buckeye, grey buckeye, or Western buckeye, is a species in the butterfly family Nymphalidae.

- Scientific name: *Junonia grisea*
- Category: `insects` (Insectes et araignées)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 31560
- iNaturalist taxon: [1021509](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1021509)

## Names

- en: Gray Buckeye
- es: Mariposa ojo de venado de California

## Countries with the most observations

US (30113), MX (315)

## Summary

Junonia grisea, also known as the gray buckeye, grey buckeye, or Western buckeye, is a species in the butterfly family Nymphalidae. It is found in North America, west of the Rocky Mountains. Like the common buckeye, the gray buckeye is a brown butterfly with eyespots on its wings that distract predators from its body.
Junonia grisea was formerly considered a subspecies of the common buckeye, Junonia coenia, called Junonia coenia grisea. The gray buckeye's status as a separate species was discovered in 2018 by Dr. Jeffrey Marcus, an entomologist at the University of Manitoba, and Melanie Lalonde, a graduate student.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junonia_grisea

## Photo

![Gray Buckeye](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/gray-buckeye/medium.jpg)

Photo: Irene · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1021509

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/gray-buckeye?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).